At 4:23 PM -0600 1/6/07, Mike McCarty wrote: >linuxmaillists@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> On Saturday 06 January 2007 12:48, Charles Curley wrote: >> >>>First off, please turn off the Highly Toxic to Mail >>>Language (HTML) in your email. Thank you. >> >> >> What mail reader are you using because KMail shows his email >> as *No HTML Message*. > >I saved it as a file on my machine, and it sure had a lot of >markup when I looked at it with a text editor. > >It did *not* however have the <html>...</html> indicators in it, >however. Here's the last headers and body of his first and messages. Possibly the way you saved the message removed the <x-html> tags. I'm using an old Eudora, with the Blah-blah-blah button on. At 11:33 AM -0500 1/6/07, Hal Levy wrote: >Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2089546328==" >Sender: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx >Errors-To: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > ><x-html><!x-stuff-for-pete base="" src="" id="0" >charset="ISO-8859-1"><div>I have not used any flavour of linux in more >years than I care to even think about. I decided to give it a go >with Fedora Core 6.</div> ><div> </div> ><div>I installed on a older Pentium 2 MMX box. The install went smoothly >and I was up an running in a short time.</div> ><div> </div> ><div>Shortly after install I was notified about 140 some-odd updates that >were availible and told the system to install them.</div> ><div> </div> ><div>I waited... and waited.. and waited... and nothing happened- at all. >No list of updates.. no notice updates were taking place. Nothing.</div> ><div> </div> ><div>Well, after literally hours of nothing happening- I told the machine >to reboot. While shutting down- the machine froze. The >background image was about 1/2 removed from the screen and it just sat... >I thought perhaps it was doing something- so I let that sit for a while- >and again, nothing happened. I powered off. ></div> ><div> </div> ><div>I powered back up- and boot starts normally- the graphic enviornment >starts up and starts loading. </div> ><div> </div> ><div>Near the end- when I expect the desktop to show- it reverts to the >command line.</div> ><div> </div> ><div>I looked at </div> > ></x-html> >-- >fedora-list mailing list >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list At 11:40 AM -0500 1/6/07, Hal Levy wrote: >Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0072398063==" >Sender: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx >Errors-To: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > ><x-html><!x-stuff-for-pete base="" src="" id="0" >charset="ISO-8859-1">Sorry- I am trying again<br> ><div> ><div> </div> ><div> </div> ><div> ><div id="mb_0"> ><div>I have not used any flavour of linux in more years than I care to >even think about. I decided to give it a go with Fedora Core 6.</div> ><div> </div> ><div>I installed on a older Pentium 2 MMX box. The install went smoothly >and I was up an running in a short time.</div> ><div> </div> ><div>Shortly after install I was notified about 140 some-odd updates that >were availible and told the system to install them.</div> ><div> </div> ><div>I waited... and waited.. and waited... and nothing happened- at all. >No list of updates.. no notice updates were taking place. Nothing.</div> ><div> </div> ><div>Well, after literally hours of nothing happening- I told the machine >to reboot. While shutting down- the machine froze. The >background image was about 1/2 removed from the screen and it just sat... >I thought perhaps it was doing something- so I let that sit for a while- >and again, nothing happened. I powered off. ></div> ><div> </div> ><div>I powered back up- and boot starts normally- the graphic enviornment >starts up and starts loading. </div> ><div> </div> ><div>Near the end- when I expect the desktop to show- it reverts to the >command line.</div> ><div> </div> ><div>I looked at ><div id="mb_0"> ><div>I have not used any flavour of linux in more years than I care to >even think about. I decided to give it a go with Fedora Core 6.</div> ><div> </div> ><div>I installed on a older Pentium 2 MMX box. The install went smoothly >and I was up an running in a short time.</div> ><div> </div> ><div>Shortly after install I was notified about 140 some-odd updates that >were availible and told the system to install them.</div> ><div> </div> ><div>I waited... and waited.. and waited... and nothing happened- at all. >No list of updates.. no notice updates were taking place. Nothing.</div> ><div> </div> ><div>Well, after literally hours of nothing happening- I told the machine >to reboot. While shutting down- the machine froze. The >background image was about 1/2 removed from the screen and it just sat... >I thought perhaps it was doing something- so I let that sit for a while- >and again, nothing happened. I powered off. ></div> ><div> </div> ><div>I powered back up- and boot starts normally- the graphic enviornment >starts up and starts loading. </div> ><div> </div> ><div>Near the end- when I expect the desktop to show- it reverts to the >command line.</div> ><div> </div> ><div>I looked at <a >href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common";>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common</a> and >validated I had the i586 rather than the i686 kernel. I attempted to >fix that. On step 2 the yumdownloader reports that a lot of >repositoriy's are listed more than once in the configuration and then >runs a short time - with a final notice of "Errno 13" Permission >denied ./kernel- >2.6.18-1/2896.fc6.i686.rpm</div> ><div> </div> ><div>I looked further on the page and found <u><font color="#810081"><a >href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212507";>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212507</a></font></u> >and ><u><font color="#810081"><a >href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218207";>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218207</a></font></u> >which seem like they might apply- but the instuctions, for a newbie, are >incomplete so I am not sure what I should be doing. It talks about >fixes in -updates-testing and so forth. However, I have no idea what >any of that means. ></div> ><div> </div> ><div>Can someone point me in the right direction?</div> ><div> </div> ><div>Hal</div></div></div></div></div></div> > ></x-html> >-- >fedora-list mailing list >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
